TRENTHAM

At Staffordshires Monkey Forest there are 140 free-roaming monkeys that live in total freedom, and you can walk amongst them !

The woodland is the monkey’s tranquil home in Trentham. The primates can go wherever they like as they aren’t restricted by any bars or cages, allowing visitors to observe the species in a way that can’t be done anywhere else in the UK. The fascinating natural behaviours of the primate happen right before your very eyes, making it one of the most unique but affordable days out in the UK.

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This month I have hijacked Mandy’s page (at her request, honestly!!) because she wanted me to tell you all about my 40th birthday trip that she had planned for me.

Emily’s Birthday Break in Rome

A bit of background:

My birthday was in January. As it was a big birthday, I would not talk about it or admit it was real to anyone until end of December 2022. My only stipulation was that I didn’t want to be in the country on my actual birthday. I appreciate that this made it very difficult to plan!!!

Liam contacted Mandy around the second week in January, explained the situation and that all doors to any locations were left open but we only have a 5-day window (so no long hauls).

Now, (and this is the bit that I really want to get across to our readers and Mandy’s potential customers) Mandy has been looking after us on the holiday front for a long time and she knows what types of hotels we like, where we like to be (location wise) on city breaks and what our bucket list trips are etc etc and this makes it soooo much easier. With her, it really is personal! True to form, she came up with some stonking ideas and yet more places to go on our ever-increasing bucket list, but we settled on Rome.

I love a city break but I don’t like it to be too ‘peopley’ – it isn’t relaxing for me when it’s heaving and queuing everywhere and whilst I’m sure, Rome is beautiful in Spring, upon guidance from our friendly neighbourhood TC, it starts building up to busy season from then onwards. The weather is in fact, whilst not exactly tan worthy, warmer than at home (I was roasting in a jacket on one of the days!) and it is indeed, far less busy.

Mandy managed to get us a beautiful hotel in a perfect location (we like our hotels to be in the goldilocks zone – not too close but just close enough to the centre) and she even checks out transfers, travel passes, etc and advises whether it is better value through them or for us to sort, once we are there.

The assistance of Mandy meant that Liam was able to book us onto an impromptu Vespa and sidecar tour of the city adventure on my actual birthday, which was awesome!! Strangely, Mandy’s advice before we left was “just don’t go on a Vespa”….. Ooops!!

And to top the day off, after we got back to our room, Mandy had arranged for the hotel to leave me a piece of cake with a note wishing me a happy birthday – now that is personal!

It was an amazing trip and I can enthusiastically recommend Rome and Mandy, not such a big bad birthday after all!!

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